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WOW! What a week! My last post was all about how stressed I was and I guess all I do to do was wait a few days.

We got quite a bit of good news news this week! Good news, weird news, and just news. First thing is Big T got a new job! SWEET! It seems like it took forever. He has had SO many interviews, phone calls and emails! I've been freaking out, worrying about getting the house, and then having the steady income coming in to PAY for the house, etc.. Well finally one of em called back and gave him an offer! He's getting a little bit more than his last job(amazingly with the economy) and great benefits. The only down side is that its a little far South, but we don't really care since he'll have one now when we move. He probably won't actually start until April 1st or so because of the moving, packing, flooring and painting.

2nd piece of info we got this week was that our loan was approved! I was a little worried because of the job situation, and I was just worried that something would go wrong. Hearing that it got approved was awesome and immediately lifted a big weight off my shoulders! I'm actually excited now and can't wait until next week when we can start shopping, painting, etc!! YAY
The builders also told us that they could keep the carpet out of the house and credit is the $1400 back since we are putting in our own wood flooring. That's sweet because we argued with them the whole time about just leaving the cement so it would be easier and quicker for us to put the floor in. So- another awesome! Earlier in the week we got a little bump in the loan process because we found out that with T's credit score being just below 680 that we couldn't get approved to get PMI. Well we HAVE to have it since we are only paying 5% down. We were going to get a conventional loan because they told us that was all we could get if we wanted it to show we were married without using my credit. It ends up that was not entirely right and we can actually do an FHA which lowers our interest rate, puts me on the loan, and helps with our mortgage amount. So after all that technical stuff( that I don't even know if I got right) it seems that all the house stuff is coming out better than originally thought.


And lastly I got the craziest phone call today! It wasn't bad, but very unexpected and surprising. Travis answered the phone and said it was for me, normally he doesn't answer if he knows the caller ID and its one of my friends- he just lets me get it. So I just figured it was a craigslister wanting to buy something. I answered and the lady on the other end tells me it's Lisa, my aunt.
This is my mom's sister. For those of you that know me, you are already probably pretty surprised. I haven't seen my mom since I was three years old. I don't know her or where she is and have no recollection of her or any of her family members. WHAT A SHOCK to get a phone call from her sister! I didn't even know what to say. She said she had being trying to find me for a while and didn't really talk to my mom. My mom is supposedly in California with her three other kids and doesn't talk to her family much. Lisa was very excited that I was even willing to talk to her, and was pretty excited that I was friendly and had no grudges or hard feeling towards any of the family. We ended up talking for a little bit about my mom, her kids and how much my Aunt loved me, etc.. We exchanged emails, numbers and addresses. I still am in shock a little bit. I'm sure that I will soon here from more distant family members. I have this whole other half of my life that I don't even know. I am 27 now and it has never bothered me, I never went searching for my mom or had terrible suppressed feeling that she didn't care about me. That is just my life. I grew up without her. I have my wonderful father whom I love very much, my kids and husband. That's all that matters. It was really weird to hear from her. She said she found me on Classmates! lol Crazy. I hope to keep in contact with her, and eventually maybe meet her and hopefully even my sisters and brother. There's so much more to this story than can be written in a blog, but it is really amazing to hear from my aunt after 24 years of no contact. Wow is all I can say. Man what a week, and it's only Thursday! Ha